There is a whole strand of academic research around the idea of links between the thoughts of Charles Darwin in "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" to capitalism (to be accurate, the phrase "survival of the fittest" was conjured by Herbert Spencer years before Darwin published his "On the Origin of Species." Darwin was aware of the phrase, but he favored his own terminology). That notion of the strong feasting on the failures of the weak has been employed to describe the tough conditions in oil and gas exploration, and the proverbial shoe seems